Please Understand Me
summary
Shows how aligning goals stops blame shifting and actually speeds delivery: adopt Domain-Driven Design to learn the customer domain, use BDD/TDD/CI to turn scenarios into working, testable increments, and push to join customer conversations so code solves real problems not abstractions. Explains emancipation (demand licenses, CI, automated deploys), warns about months of invisible overengineering, and claims continuous delivery of small value slices outperforms perfect but late systems.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:54Developers vs Managers
- 3:20Groundwork
- 6:13Work ethics
- 10:06Collaboration
- 16:28Key to Success
- 19:32Dangers
- 26:05Personal Development
- 27:05Work Environment
- 28:05My cynical rule
- 29:05Reevaluate
- 30:05Investment
- 31:05Software Development
- 32:05Managers vs Developers
- 33:05Money
- 34:05Trust
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